The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines earned a combined revenue of 36 trillion VND (1.62 billion USD) in the first half of this year, accounting for 72 percent of the set target. General Director of Vietnam Airlines Duong Tri Thanh said the company enjoyed a growth of 37 percent at home and 17 percent on the international market in the first six months of this year. In the reviewed period, the company successfully conducted over 70,300 safe flights, a year on year increase of 10.7 percent and delivered 9.65 million passengers, up 15.5 percent compared to the same period last year. Of which, international flights rose 6.9 percent and domestic flights increased 21.1 percent against the same period last year. However, the carrier still has to face the difficulties and challenges from the slowdown of the world’s economy, including social disturbance and rising terror instances in European countries. Besides those issues, rapid growth in the domestic aviation sector, … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines earns $1.62 bln in H1
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Vietnam Airlines: one of the world’s top 10 most improved airlines
PANO - The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, has been selected as one of the top 10 most improved airlines of the world in 2015 by Skytrax, a United Kingdom-based airline and airport review organization. The award was among Skytrax’s World Airline Awards. Earlier, on June 16th, Skytrax announced the 2015 World Airline Awards at the 2015 Paris Air Show. Based on its online survey from September 2014 to May 2015, with the participation of 18.89 million airline passengers from all over the world, the organization chose the best regional airlines and best airport services. This year, Vietnam Airlines has moved up three positions to 55 in the top 100 world’s best airlines. It was seen as recognition by global airline passengers and the international airline community towards Vietnam Airlines’ great efforts and improvement over the past year. Skytrax’s World Airlines Awards are of high quality that all airlines in the world wish to achieve. Airline … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines: one of the world’s top 10 most improved airlines
Vietnam Airlines voted one of Top Most Improved Airlines
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has been selected one of the Top 10 Most Improved Airlines by the UK-based airline review organization Skytrax. It is part of the Skytrax World Airline Awards which was announced at the Paris Air Show 2015 on June 16. Winning airlines were selected in a survey from September, 2014 to May, 2015 with the participation of 18.89 million passengers around the world. Vietnam Airlines has also ranked the 55th position in the list of the world’s 100 best airlines for 2015. Skytrax World Airline Awards, described as "the Oscars of the aviation industry", are coveted Quality accolades for the world airline industry, and a global benchmark of airline excellence. Travelers from across the globe take part each year in the world’s largest airline passenger satisfaction survey to decide the award winners. … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines voted one of Top Most Improved Airlines
Vietnam Airlines continues probe into unclaimed gold incident
Vietnam Airlines, which has suspended the crew of flight VN 791 on which 6.4 kilograms of unclaimed gold was found on February 11, said it is expanding its investigation into the incident. It said all employees working at its offices in Hanoi and Hong Kong and connected with that particular flight would be investigated. It would also review its entire operation to find out and plug loopholes in the system, it said, adding new regulations would be drafted to prevent such an incident happening again. None of the crew or passengers has claimed the ownership of the gold that was found in the co-pilot's seat. The crew consisted of a Polish captain, two Vietnamese co-pilots, and seven attendants. Related article: Over 6 kg gold found unclaimed on Vietnam Airlines plane … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines continues probe into unclaimed gold incident
Vietnam Airlines gets green light to go public
The Vietnamese Government has allowed national carrier Vietnam Airlines to go public in a fresh move to restructure the State-run corporation. The Government website on Wednesday published a directive signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh on Tuesday telling the Ministry of Transport to cooperate with other ministries in instructing Vietnam Airlines to draft a detailed equitization plan for Prime Minister approval. The directive said the State would retain more than half of the national carrier's chartered capital. The document does not mention the timeframe for the equitization. Also according to the directive, the establishment of a national air transportation group of Vietnam would be considered after a review of Vietnam's experimental accomplishment of the business groups pattern. … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines gets green light to go public